JAKARTA, Aug. 25 -- China continued their march towards final medal table glory by winning six more golds at the Asian Games on Saturday.

Now China lead the medal table on 72 gold, 51 silver and 30 bronze medals, followed by Japan and South Korea on 34 and 25 golds respectively. Iran sit in fourth place with 14 golds while hosts Indonesia have 10 golds to rank fifth.

The athletics competition early Saturday kicked off its first matchday with men's marathon event, which was won by Japanese Hiroto Inoue in a time of 2 hours 18 minutes 22 seconds.

In women's hammer throw, Luo Na won China's first athletics gold by beating her teammate Wang Zheng, the current Asian record holder.

The 25-year-old dominated the field to lead from beginning and secured the title with a stunning 71.42 meters in her fourth try. Wang took silver with 70.86 meters.

On the track, China's star sprinter Su Bingtian, the co-holder of the Asian 100 meters record, qualified as the winner of heat 4 at 10.27 seconds with his teammate Xu Zhouzheng.

As the top seed of the most watched race, Su clocked 9.91 seconds in the men's 100-meter race at the Paris leg of the 2018 IAAF Diamond League in June, which tied the Asian record created by the Nigerian-born Qatari Femi Ogunode in 2017.

Femi is absent from Jakarta Asian Games, but his younger brother Tosin Ogunode, also on behalf of Qatar, advanced from the heats.

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